Margaret Serpico

Margaret Serpico is
the Egyptology subject specialist for 3D Petrie. She is responsible for interactive concepts, story
boarding, written and visual content, and user interaction (UX) design. She
works with Giancarlo Amati on interactive development and delivery. In the 3D model production chain, she is
responsible for object selection, 3D model quality review and approval. Margaret
has also developed and carried out evaluations of interactives.

Margaret is also Honorary Research Associate at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL.

Petrie Museum

Oct 2002 – April 2004. Curator, Collections of Virtual Egypt and
Sudan, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL, London. Funded by the
Designation Challenge Fund and the Arts and Humanities Research Board.
Reactivation of four collections in the southeast of England (Bexhill Museum,
Buckinghamshire County Museum, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Ipswich
Museum). Documented and digitized collections, created the Accessing Virtual
Egypt website and helped develop exhibition plans.

Aug
2005 - Mar 2006. Co-ordinator, Egyptology Specialist Network, Petrie Museum of
Egyptian Archaeology, UCL, London. Funded by Renaissance and the Designation
Challenge Fund. Established the Egyptology Subject Specialist Network, ACCES
(The Association for Curators of Collections from Egypt and Sudan), created
entries for approximately 200 ancient Egyptian collections in the UK on the MLA
Cornucopia website, mapped those collections and undertook and e-published a
survey of their current state.

Consultancy Projects

Margaret has worked as a consultant for a number of UK museum collections. This has involved developing permanent and temporary exhibitions and collection reviews.

Serpico, M. (2008). “The future of ancient Egyptian and
Sudanese archaeological collections in the UK: Forming Plans for the
Association for Curators of Collections from Egypt and Sudan (ACCES)”, The
Museum Archaeologist 31, 67-74.

Serpico, M. (2008). “Review of the Egyptology Collection
at Salford Museum and Art Gallery” in What’s in Store: Collections Review in
the North West (Renaissance North West: Manchester), 13-15.

Serpico, Margaret and White, Raymond (2001). “The
Identification and Use of Varnishes on New Kingdom Funerary Equipment”, in W.V.
Davies (ed.), Colour and Painting in
Ancient Egypt. British Museum Press, London, 33-42.

Bourriau, J., Smith, L., and Serpico, M., (2001). “The
provenance of Canaanite amphorae found at Memphis and Amarna in the New
Kingdom,” in A. Shortland (ed.), The
Social Context of Technological Change: Egypt and the Near East 1650-1150 BC.
Oxbow Books, Oxford, 113-46.

Serpico, M. and White, R. (1996). “A Report on the
Analysis of the Contents of a Cache of Jars from the Tomb of Djer”, in A.J.
Spencer (ed.), Aspects of Early Egypt.
British Museum Press, London, 128-39.